The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

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ROYAL FUNERAL RITES

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mausoleum proportionate to the grandeur and
sovereign rank of the person; and one not at all
inferior to the one erected during the funeral rites
and pageant of our lady the queen,2 by the direction
and advice of Doctor Don Diego Afan de Ribera,
auditor of this royal Audiencia, and auditor elect of
that of the new kingdom of Granada. The royal
assembly entrusted the arrangements of that
solemnity to him. Each community in succession
chanted its responsary, with different choirs of
musicians, so well trained that they could vie
with those of Europa. While that pious action
was going on, the ecclesiastical and secular cabildos
were assembling, as well as the tribunal of the royal
official judges, the superiors of the orders, the rectors
of the two colleges - San Joseph, which is in charge
of the fathers of the Society of Jesus; and San
Thomas, which is ruled by the fathers of St. Dominic-and the members of the bureau of the Santa
Misericordia (as was determined and arranged
two days previously, the place of each being
assigned) in the hall of the royal Audiencia.
There the managers assigned them their position, observing toward each one the order of
his seniority and precedence. They left that place
in the same order, to express their condolences
to Don Diego Faxardo, governor and captaingeneral of these islands, who stood in the hall of the
royal assembly. He was covered with mourning,
which well manifested his grief, and represented
very vividly in his majestic appearance the royal per2 This was the mother of the dead prince Baltasar Carlos - Isabel (or Elizabeth) of France, daughter of Henri IV; she died
October 6, I644.